Deep brain stimulation links obesity and Type 2 diabetes
Researchers report that stimulating the nucleus accumbens in OCD patients improves insulin sensitivity and reduces insulin needs, suggesting brain metabolism links. In tests with 14 patients, insulin sensitivity rose when stimulators were on, and the effect was stronger in lean individuals. Animal and human data imply brain reward circuits influence metabolism and diabetes risk.
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U.S
Science Translational Medicine
Miguel Alonso- Alonso
Harvard University
Kasper W. Ter Horst
University of Amsterdam
Academic Medical Center
Accumbens
Bens
Alonso Alonso
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Mock pandemic drill simulates global outbreak policy choices
A Johns Hopkins exercise imagines a global flu like virus spreading from Frankfurt and Caracas to the United States with mass infection of troops abroad. Officials debate travel bans vaccine priority and military aid while political pressures shape guidance in a televised, daylong scenario.
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Germany
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Johns Hopkins Center For Health Security
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Susan Brooks
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Johns Hopkins
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Middle East
Facebook
White House
Defense
Tom Inglesby
Johns Hopkins Center
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Supreme Court
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Mediterranean diet dying as obesity rises in southern Europe
WHO official Joao Breda reports obesity in southern European children surpasses 40 percent. COSI data show declines in fruit and vegetable intake among Spanish Italian Greek children, while some countries begin soda taxes and nutrition education to curb trends.
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Spain
Italy
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European Congress
Joao Breda
WHO
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Cyprus
Washington Post
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